PRESS RELEASE – As you may be aware, Mrs Patricia Charles was a former Resident Tutor of the School of Continuing Studies in St. Lucia (now the Open Campus), and dedicated her life to the furtherance of the Arts, Education and Culture in her adopted home – St. Lucia.
Established in 2010, The Patricia Charles Memorial Lecture celebrates her life and work, and has become a much anticipated fixture on The Open Campus Saint Lucia’s annual calendar of events.
This years lecture is entitled “Lakou: Caribbean Indigenous Education and Development” delivered by reknowned Trinidadian theatre artiste Rawle Gibbons.
About Rawle Gibbons:
A Trinidadian born writer and dramatist, Professsor Rawle Gibbons was the first Head of The UWI’s Centre for Creative and Festival Arts, St. Augustine Campus for 20 years. His Calypso Trilogy of plays was a landmark of calypso history and politics on stage. Recently retired, his abiding passion is education through drama and folk and popular art forms.
Lecture Synopsis:
Lakou: Caribbean Indigenous Education and Development
Caribbean development has historically been bench marked against the education of its people, evidenced in overall literacy and success rates within the formal system. Despite achievements in these areas, the goal of higher education to ‘unlock the potential’ of the region has largely eluded us.
A dynamic speaker, Professor Gibbons argues in this talk that genuine education requires understanding and appreciation of the capacities locked within our people. Unlocking their potential is, of necessity, a cultural engagement and cannot be premised on anything else. He presents ‘The Yard’ as the model and mechanism for educational (and therefore, social) transformation.
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